Encounter with a giant mama python protecting her eggs! Watch as I carefully remove the eggs for incubation, ensuring the best chance for the hatchlings' survival. This reptile mom doesn't hold back!

On May 8, the egg pipped: The chick inside cracked a tiny hole through the shell, the first step of hatching. But there was a problem. Rather than pipping at the egg’s vertical midpoint, the chick had ...

Body camera video from the Lee County Sheriff's Office shows a deputy picking up a python found on a family's pool deck in Lehigh Acres on July 5.

Few predators swallow their prey whole. Even fewer can digest their meals with bones and all. But for some reptiles like the ...

Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...

The particles in the cells' crypts, the researchers determined, are excess to the snake's requirements once it has extracted all it needs from the completely dissolved bones. The purpose of the ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...